Centre for Comparative Modernities
Postgraduate Workshop Series
Autumn Term 2025 Term Card
Encountering Modernity in Literature
Session 1: Literary Translation of Modernity [28 October 2025]
Between the Shiren and the Playwright: Misrepresenting Shakespeare in the Formation of Modern Chinese Drama
Anthony Zhang, Durham University
Observing Modernity: Sir Syed Ahmed’s Urdu Travel Writing as Method
Abdul Sabur Kidwai, King’s College London
Session 2: Modernity, Post-Coloniality, and Mythical Narratives [4 November 2025]
Global Modernity Through the Smokey Mirror: Survivals and Metamorphosis of A Trickster God
Alonzo Loza Baltazar, IIEstéticas/UNAM, Mexico
When Ulysses Meets Nedjma: A Dialogue Across Modernities
Omar Harem, Maghnia University Centre, Algeria
Session 3: Rediscovering Identity in the Modern World [18 November 2025]
‘Her Long Blanks and Darknesses of Abstraction Were Polish’, or: Where Are the Poles in Modernism?
Juliette Bretan, University of Cambridge
Reenchanting modernity: Love, Sufism, and Secularity
Çiğdem Buğdaycı, Boğaziçi University, Turkey